Sr. Finance Analyst - Supply Chain/HYBRID

BUILD A BETTER CAREER WITH MSC

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries. We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

Requisition ID :17018

Employment Type :Full Time

Job Category :Finance

Work Location :Davidson, NC (CSC)

Brief Position Summary

The Sr. Finance Business Partner will be expected to provide financial leadership, direction, and analysis to the Supply Chain leadership team. As a partner to the function, this role will convert complex business plans into forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans, develop and maintain scorecards, develop business cases, and provide proactive analysis, insights, and recommendations to optimize business performance.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners that result in forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans
• Collaborates across the business to provide root cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non-financial data to functional partners.
• Analyzes results across Supply Chain, identifying trends and proactively communicates insights to support the business
• Serves as the primary finance partner for the Supply Chain organization.
• Supports P&L analysis for area of responsibility
• Ensures processes are in place to execute deliverables consistently, timely, and accurately
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models
• Researches issues as identified, reports findings, suggests alternative courses of action, and constantly looks for process improvements.
• Performs ad hoc analyses and present recommendations to key business leaders
• Works to fully understand business; identify and implement process and organizational improvements.
• Evaluates and measures execution of department objectives.
• Reviews monthly expenditures and ensures that budgetary goals are met. Reviews monthly metrics to ensure goals are met.
• Supports distribution operations, logistics, planning and procurement, EH&S & Sustainability leadership.
• Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC’s vision and unity of purpose.
• Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required
  
  
  

Qualifications

What You Need:

• A bachelor’s degree in finance or the equivalent is required.
• A minimum of five years financial and operational business experience is required.
• Experience taking large volumes of data from multiple data sources (Excel, databases, & Tableau) and condensing it into a clean, insightful, and automated format
• Basic knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, modeling and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
• Strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
• Proven track record of providing strong finance partnership
• In depth knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
  
  
  

Bonus Points If You Have

• MBA preferred.
• SQL / Tableau (or equivalent) experience a plus
  
  
  

Other Requirements

• A valid driver’s license may be required.
• Position requires up to 10% of travel
  
  
  

Compensation starting at $72100 - $113300 depending on experience.

The salary range represented is based on similar roles in comparable industries, and the cost of labor in respective cities. Actual compensation is based on the candidate’s relevant experience, education requirements and peer pay equity. The Company reserves the right to modify the range as market conditions change.

Why MSC? People. Collaboration. Insight. That’s how you build something that works. Built on a foundation of trust, MSC works side by side with our customers to help them drive business results. With more than one million product offerings and 75 years of experience across industries, MSC strives to help our customers achieve greater productivity, profitability, and growth through inventory management and other innovative supply chain solutions. We care about our associates and have programs in place to help our 6,500 team members achieve their potential.

When you join our team, you will receive rewards and recognition for your contributions, training and professional development opportunities, Associate Inclusion Circles: Women, Pride, Black, Veterans, HOLA and DisABLEd as well as a variety of benefits to support you and your family's health, well-being, and financial future. If you are inspired to learn, take risks, and succeed as a team, you can build a better career at MSC.

Equal Opportunity Statement: At MSC, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and our associates without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or any category protected by applicable law. By applying to this job you agree to the Application and Acknowledgment Declaration terms. Click HERE to review